i202 Fall 2010 School of Information, UC Berkeley

http://youtu.be/F0QXB5pw2qE

Recently, Google released an interesting video that uses popular and fastest-rising search keywords in 2010. Using their collected data, they compile them into a video describing the overview and story of 2010.

It is interesting how different cultures classify incomprehensible concepts. In almost every language there is an expression that is used when a concept is not well understood. For example, English speakers say: "This is Greek to me". While in Spanish, when something is not understood, they say "esto me suena a chino" (this sounds Chinese to me). Furthermore, Germans tend to say that it sounds Spanish to them; "Das kommt mir Spanisch vor".

Apparently, this is an individual classification system in a fun way. (Taken from http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mootaz/ftp/html/research.html.)

This is a view of computer science research. Sarcasm abounds. This is supposed to be funny, but it can offend people. Don't read if you are easily offended, and don't get angry if your most favorite research topic is not presented appropriately. If your most favorite pet is not here, please let me know.

Recently launched, Blekko, a new search engine, is attempting to provide users with better search results. Currently, when individuals search the web, they have to sort through various sites in order to find 'trustworthy' information. According to Rick Skrenta, CEO and co-founder of Blekko,'the web is filling up with spam and low-rent webpages from content farms like Demand Media, saying the web now has 100 billion urls, most created by bots.'

DH's blog post made me think of a very weird sports franchise snafu that occurred fifteen years ago.